# Paraview 5.5.0 on arch linux, Qt include fix

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73 "2018-06-04T11:43:52Z")
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### Author: ![Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/charles_gueunet/32/40_2.png) [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/1 "2018-06-04T11:43:53Z")

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Hello everyone,

I have compiled Paraview 5.5.0 on my freshly installed Arch linux and I had to add some Qt include for the compilation to works:  
Here is the [complete patch](http://charles.gueu.net/doc/arch-wayland-3june.patch).

- For my compilation: I used the default options with python3 and the `VTK_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5=ON`.
- For my system: it is a Wayland based installation.

Hope it can help,  
Charles

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### Author: ![hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hsalimi/32/41_2.png) [@hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hsalimi)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/2 "2018-06-04T12:20:25Z")

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Hi Charles,

Did you compiled the ParaView examples as well? Without examples, everything is fine for me. But when I turn the option for building the examples, the build process complains about the “Qt::Qt5X11Extras” that cannot be found to be linked. Any ideas?

p.s. I am using the same version of ParaView like you, but on CentOS 7.

Hadi

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### Author: ![Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/charles_gueunet/32/40_2.png) [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/3 "2018-06-04T12:25:33Z")

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There is a qt5-x11extras packages on Arch which is required for the Paraview build.  
Maybe someting like [this](https://fedora.pkgs.org/26/fedora-x86_64/qt5-qtx11extras-5.7.1-3.fc26.x86_64.rpm.html) could help you ?

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### Author: ![hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hsalimi/32/41_2.png) [@hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hsalimi)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/4 "2018-06-04T12:31:30Z")

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Well, I installed Qt5 using its online installer tool, and all the make files, libraries, include files, etc of Qt5:X11Extras are installed.

Hadi

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### Author: ![Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/charles_gueunet/32/40_2.png) [@Charles\_Gueunet](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Charles_Gueunet)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/5 "2018-06-04T12:35:53Z")

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Is the `Q5X11Extras_DIR` set accordingly in your Paraview build ?

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### Author: ![hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hsalimi/32/41_2.png) [@hsalimi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hsalimi)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/6 "2018-06-04T12:39:47Z")

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Yes, I checked it and everything seems fine.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/7 "2018-06-04T12:45:05Z")

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@hsalimi : please open you own topic. Your issue is not related to @Charles_Gueunet fix.

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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-5-0-on-arch-linux-qt-include-fix/73/8 "2018-06-04T14:09:38Z")

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Thanks, Charles. I believe most of the missing includes are already addressed in `master` [here](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/2474).
